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On April 14, 2011, students and professors of Distance Learning Master’s Program in Ecumenical Studies had an opportunity to listen to the online lecture “Christological Terminology of the Council of Chalcedon (451):

This semester a new course is read by the professors Peter Gilbert and Elizabeth Theokritoff. This course will give an overview of the history, theology and spiritual life of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

November 26-28th, the administration of IES, students of RMPES took part in the 85th Social Week in France together with Nataliya Alieksieyeva, assistant of the head of board “Council Secretariat” Lviv City Council, and Stepan Kurpil, people’s deputy of Ukraine. This year Social Week of France was conducted in Paris under the slogan “Migrants.

For the year 2011 there was adopted a decision to continue cooperation of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies, state specialized publishing house “Svit” and Principal Board of Education and Science of Lviv Regional State Administration for the output of textbooks for other grades of public schools.

Institute of Ecumenical Studies has initiated work in writing and printing of textbooks in the Essentials of Christian Ethics. The realization of this is conducted in cooperation with the Commission on teaching Christian Ethics and education that during many years exists affiliated to the Board of Education and Science of Lviv Regional State Administration. To the process of writing the Institute draws authors, consultants, educators, scientist and priests of different confessions.

On the 11th of November there was the first web-seminar (online lecture) of Remote Master Program in Ecumenical Studies for students of the first year of studies. Web-seminar was conducted by Ihor Sklenar, professor of journalism at Ivan-Franko Lviv National University, PhD in Social Communication.

The Institute of Ecumenical Studies launched a new Christian media project “Spirituality.” It is a monthly informational publication of ecumenical character about Ukraine. It is published in Ukrainian with Russian translation. It was established by the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University and the newspaper “Vysokyi Zamok” (Lviv).

From 9 to 21 August 2010, an introductory session before the beginning of the distance learning course at DMPES was held. Thirteen students traveled to UCU from different parts of Ukraine and attended three intensive courses on the history of the Church in Ukraine, Christian ethics, and public relations for churches and religious organizations. During the session, numerous meetings and discussions were held.

From 15 to 18 September 2010, in Zvenigorodka (near Moscow) an international conference “The Bible and science: Creating a bridge between education and the Church” was held. The conference was organized by the Biblical Theological Institute of St. Andrew the First-Called and the Dutch Protestant organization Kerk in Actie.